^ I think that's a pretty good theory actually. If he lost his EMS during the fight with Shodaime by using Izanagi, maybe that would explain:
- why Madara helped with the Uchiha massacre, in order to obtain a supply of replacement Sharingans to exact his revenge
- why Madara says that he is a shadow of his former power, because he no longer has his EMS and its jutsus (correct me if I'm wrong here, but whenever he has used his special Jutsus before, I don't think we've actually seen him activate his EMS, although that may just be because the mask obscures his face and makes it hard to see)
- why Madara wanted Sasuke to use Itachi's eyes to obtain EMS, so he could pluck them out and get his own EMS back

Hashirama and Madara are renowned as two of the most powerful Ninjas in the Naruto world.
However, dispite this great power, we still don't know a lot about them. The reason I created this Thread is to explore the various theories and speculations there are concerning these two ninja gods.

The first thing I noticed that convinced me to start this thread is a certain picture I saw in Naruto chapter 399 page 10 -11.

In the picture Hashirama has summoned 7 swords from a scroll he was wearing on his back. One of the swords looks kind of like the Beheading sword that Zabuza used. There are a lot of questions regarding how this would be possible, but wouldn't it be cool if he used the seven swords of the mist to fight Madara. I could just be looking into things too deeply but its fun to speculate. Hope you guys like the thread : )

i would love to say that its the same sword, but if it were the seven mist demons' swords:
1) there would be an extremely wide yet short sword (one of the mizukages bodyguards, chojiro)
2) a scaled sword, unlikely wrapped yet (sammehada, kisames sword)
3) the sword you saw is similar to zabuzas, however zabuzas had a metal handle, while the other sword has a wrapped handle.
not trying to be a downer you or anything, i would love that kind of plot twist! X3